Posts by Alec Morgan
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Coulda, woulda, shoulda, “have always thought”, maybe, “what if”, no, no no. It must always be about beyond reasonable doubt based on evidence, which may include verifiable cop ‘spice ups’, fit ups and perjury.
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Was big in the 70s alright, Yallop’s book, TJ Sprott’s forensic investigations, Thomas “Re-Trial’ committee etc. Royal Com. hearings were held in the still unusual West Plaza building I believe. “knew someone, who knew someone” is common in these look backs. But, heh, I did know someone who met Thomas on the inside and quizzed him, and reckoned others asked too, verdict: “just a farm boy, rather thick, did not do it”.
Now as for the coppers; they remain great at finding lost trampers and cleaning up after car crashes, things most of us prefer not to. But they do take shortcuts, some are bent, and are all members of the state forces as a number of picketing unionists and protestors might confer.
On the eve of the 1990 Auck Commonwealth games my flat got raided by a mixture of detectives, bluebellies and dogs with a warrant seeking “rocket launchers and ammunition”. They basically kept us under house arrest for the day. The search was fruitless. This affair was well documented by the indefatigable Brian Rudman then at the Auckland Star. Their snout had been wrong or whatever. So what did our thin blue line do coming up empty? They planted a good quantity of very fresh cannabis leaf in an ornamental box in the lounge, saying “don’t take this any further, (which as political activists we had indicated we would) and we won’t mention this”. None of us actually smoked, though some of our guests did, hilarious in retrospect.
Anyway a door down was a section of the Harawira family who got raided too, they even bought some beer over later aplogising in case we got raided by association or something, which did not seem to be the case.
So the upshot is pretty obvious, tread very cautiously around the NZ Police-hello Rickards, Hughes, Hutton etc. Kiwis love their ‘cold cases’ but as the years tick by the Crewe one will likely only get colder.
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Sorry Values Party people, for me it is anything by John “Garden Fresh” Hanlon, incl. his more recent release CDs.
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Capture: Flash Cars, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Or “a boy scout off of a girl guide...” as another old kiwi auto related crudity went.
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Capture: Flash Cars, in reply to Thomas Johnson,
The long lost “Queen St” did not jostle for contender status upon its brief release or TV showing. Some of the crew obviously learnt heaps though. The location shoot is a real time capsule. The screen shot shows my first 60 Fairlane, powder blue “tankster” as we called ’em, to the right of characters. Around 15.00 in there are about 8 people sitting on it with 1 clunky continuity error.
“sitting on the hood of a Dodge, drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain” sang the boss. Not in my car, bin full of ice, slippery Leopard lager cans and Muscato Bianco screw top ‘wine’. -
Capture: Flash Cars, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Resembles a scene from Monte Hellman’s “Two Lane Blacktop” Sofie, the Chevies are rather clean though!
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pic in post above: battered print by MC of my 58 Ford on Civic Theatre cnr, this pic my 60 Ford Fairlane 500 outside Galaxie dairy in View Rd Mt Eden in late 90s.
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Beautiful luminous images, handheld, no flash, for various reasons should be put out there more. Social anthropology, petrol head book buyers and even art. The moving vehicle shots I have seen are quite cinematic. The strangely empty streets intriguing. Punks down the side streets, heh.
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@ craig
this is where Idiot/Savant blew an otherwise gold medal winning shark jump by dismounting on his head.
I can't even begin to articulate the ugly dog being whistled for there -- you're not only an anti-union scab and tool of a foreign multi-national corporate you're enabling rape.
{Very very angry rant pre-redacted before it's even written}Makes more sense if you read Maia’s full piece which addresses power imbalance between industry and AE.
